Breakdown No. 1

3 miles from home, complete cooling system water on the A3 following a
jubilee clip failing on the radiator.

Sent Daisy to the Honda garage over the road to beg a new clip!

Worried.

Luke, Bo, Daisy

Dumball One has picked up a small bit of corporate 'sponsorship'.

We had to pop into Maplin to get a Satnav for the whirlwind of organisation that is James "Oh, is it the Dumball today?" Addy, and while we were there we needed to get a new stereo for ourselves. They gave us the wrong model (more expensive) - but the good lads at Maplin saw the good cause in our hearts� gave it to us for the lower price (well, technically they said they were doing it to get the loud man - Nick - out of their shop).

Thanks to Ben, Jimmy, Dean and Gary at Maplin Forest Hill. Maplin. The electronics specialist.





So, in a coup of organisation, and a bit of a panic over the recent french fishymen strike causing massive queues, we're in Dover 2 hours early and are taking the opertunity to get Dumball One looking the part, and do a bit of impromptu War Child fundraising with the 'locals'.

Dumball 2008 has begun. Lets do this.  

We appear to have lost Daisy.... Sorry Chaps.

This is The Dukes of Hazzard not Brokeback....

Ferry strikes, we're not worried, we' ve still got 9 borders and 3 breakdowns ahead.

Forget the big names. I scoured the Sue Ryders and Scopes of this city and couldn't find a flat cap anywhere. So where is this incredibly well stocked second hand shop?








Why, my local Bosnian charity shop, of course. We love Bosnia. Let's hope the feeling's mutual in a few days time...

'PLEEEEASE let me sit on the soft and fluffy seat covers' was Robs constant
request last night as Team Raging Horn finally found themselves in the same
place at the same time. I'd never met Captain footpedal before but the ay he
was cuddling and stroking the fake fur has left me with some serious
concerns for the coming week!

Be Afraid... I AM!

Told you! There's the old cow looking more like her usual self.

From the few I've seen so far, the cars all look absolutely amazing. Stirling work guys+gals, this is gonna be immense. General Lee are on board with the posting malarky, as are hopefully Raging Horn. Anyone else?

And we've had a request for a list of who's in each car, so here, in full, are the glorious members of Dumball 2008 - Mission: Corfu.

Click on a team to go to their Fundraising page! (more to come!)

Squadron	Team Name	Team Number	Names
BLUE LEADER	Dumball One	1	Nick Geary, Rick Murray, Matt Arnold & Luke Sudbery
BLUE	The Bluesmobile	7	Paul Whelan & Michael Morley
BLUE	The Alliance	9	Jig Ramji, Steve McConville & Montaldo
BLUE	Daisy Dukes	12	Rachel Waring & Georgia Ogunyomi
BLUE	The Three Un-wise Men	16	Dave Garvey, Rob McDiarmid & T Cameron
BLUE	Captain's Bitches	23	Amy Elizabeth Hargreaves, Rosalind Mary Coward & Bianca Joseph
RED LEADER	Band Aid	4	Rich Pseudo Bold, James ClownShoes Addy & David Hinton
RED	The Mystery Machine	5	Dan Addy, Sarah Buck & Fran Pobiarzyn
RED	Tin Buck Three	6	Katie Jenkins, Simon Wilkinson & Angela Sharp
RED	Achilles Wheel	10	Jess Holliday, Michelle Coomber & Max Cooper
RED	Beltarama	14	Nick King & Ant Gould
GREEN LEADER	Team Embassy	3	John Cappello, Colin Jelliff, Pat Myhill & Sav Kyriakou
GREEN	Raging Horn	2	Colin Horn, Tom Horn, Cormac Whelan & Robert Gurney
GREEN	Team Neverfail	8	Dan Cory, Kota Tabuchi, Steen Albrechtsen & Pelle Noermark
GREEN	Coffin Dodgers	20	Kieran Lowe, Aaron Barnham, Mervyn Lawn & Rueben Lowe
GREEN	Hackney Carriages	21	Simon Snook & Jason Ryan
BLACK LEADER	Hearse Today Gone Tomorrow	31	Neville Wilson-deRoze, Chris Williams & Richard Thurman
BLACK	Muppets on Tour	15	Lin Jones, Neil Winsor & Josh Scott
BLACK	1976 Bulgarian yellow snowcone eating champions	17	Chris Stapleton, Helen Ragan & David Fugill
BLACK	The Duke, the Commie, and Gambo	18	Lewis Peattie, Nicholas Blair & Damian Leese
BLACK	Drive First, Teach Later	19	Stuart Simons & Jo Parkes
BLACK	Austin Rovers - IMOM	28	Paul Adams, Rob Wilde & Graham Brown
WHITE LEADER	1.21 Gigawatts	25	Barry Zubel, Mat Burnett & Richard Morton
WHITE	The B Team	13	Ben Crean & David Keggin
WHITE	Engine-Ears	22	Dave Morrison, Bob Garven, Declan Cullinane & Richard Bowie
WHITE	Three Kings	24	Brian Budden, Gareth Dutton & Mark bray
WHITE	Easy Funerals	29	Simon Fraser & Liam Pimblott
YELLOW LEADER	Big Yellow Taxi	11	Frank Smalley, Gareth Rhys Jones & Andrew Thompson
YELLOW	Bummer Boys	26	Mark Wilcocks, Daniel Coffey & Fraser Barrett
YELLOW	Easense	27	Daniel Hamer, Adam Sumner & James Dickson
YELLOW	The Three Amigos	30	Simon Lazarus, Simon Kennell & Rob Tindle
YELLOW	The General Lee	32	James Bromley, Fleur Hulme & Ralph Woods

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